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( Platonic love)
Affinity&_160;· Attachment&_160;· Bonding
Boyfriend&_160;· Casual&_160;· Cohabitation
Compersion&_160;· Concubinage
Consort&_160;· Courtesan&_160;· Courtship
Divorce&_160;· Domestic partnership
Dower&_160;/ Dowry&_160;/ Bride price
Family&_160;· Friendship&_160;· Girlfriend
Husband&_160;· Infatuation&_160;· Intimacy
Jealousy&_160;· Limerence&_160;· Love
Kinship&_160;· Marriage&_160;· Monogamy
Psychology of monogamy
Non-monogamy
Passion&_160;· Pederasty
Platonic love&_160;· Polyamory
Polyfidelity&_160;· Polygamy
Relationship abuse
Relationship breakup&_160;· Romance
Romantic friendship&_160;· Separation
Sexuality&_160;· Same-sex relationship
Significant other&_160;· Soulmate
Teen dating violence&_160;· Wedding
Widowhood&_160;· Wife At the same time, this interpretation is a misunderstanding of the nature of the Platonic ideal of love which, from its origin, was that of a chaste but deep love transcending mortal life.[1] In its original Platonic form, this love was meant to bring the two people closer to wisdom and the Platonic Form of Beauty. It is described in depth in Plato's Phaedrus and Symposium. In the Phaedrus, it is said to be a form of divine madness that is a gift from the gods, and that its proper expression is rewarded by the gods in the afterlife;[1] in the Symposium, the method by which love takes one to the form of beauty and wisdom is detailed. The term amor platonicus was coined as early as the 15th century by the Florentine scholar Marsilio Ficino as a synonym for amor socraticus. Platonic love in this original sense of the term is examined in Plato's dialogue the Symposium, which has as its topic the subject of love or Eros generally. Of particular importance there are the ideas attributed to the prophetess Diotima, which present love as a means of ascent to contemplation of the Divine. For Diotima, and for Plato generally, the most correct use of love of other human beings is to direct one's mind to love of Divinity. In short, with genuine Platonic love, the beautiful or lovely other person inspires the mind and the soul and directs one's attention to spiritual things. One proceeds from recognition on another's beauty, to appreciation of Beauty as it exists apart from any individual, to consideration of Divinity, the source of Beauty, to love of Divinity. The spiritual ideas of Platonic love — as well as the fundamental spiritual emphasis of all of Plato's writings — has been de-emphasised over the last two centuries. Plato emphasized chastity in the case of homoerotic attraction, but suggested that recognition of beauty in a person of the same sex may still serve the aim of inspiration. Indeed, in some ways homoerotic attraction may have served Plato's illustrative purposes better than heterosexual love, since in the latter case issues of procreation complicate the picture.
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